How to Start a Food Blog in 2022 and earn money from your blog

If you are interested in starting a blog related to food and recipes in 2022 and earning a few bugs as a passive income online you are going to find this guide perfect to start your own blog even if you do not have a technical background. I am going to help you create one by showing you a step-by-step guide to follow. In case you are stuck or have any questions regarding the blog then do comment below and I will surely get back to you with my best answer.

Below is the step-by-step guide so that it is easy to understand in creating a brand new recipe blog or website. This is a helpful guide for beginners who are interested in creating a WordPress website / Food Blog in 2022.

Since I have been a Food blogger for a while now and creating content constantly I can simply guide you through the very basic step-by-step guide and help you create a brand new blog for you that could be shared by the world. So simply jump on to the steps or say guide that should work for sure.

To begin a food blog, you’ll need the following items.

To create a brand new blog/Website of your own, you need to buy a domain and the hosting. These are the first step before anything else could be done. So follow up the steps below carefully.

What is a Domain name?

A domain name is the name of your blog that you wanted to create. For example, my blog name is with my personal name www.sonalichoudhury.com. You may create a personal blog by using your own personal name or you may choose any other name that you want. It’s so simple. For example, Cookie and Kate is another famous blog that you may find on google search. etc

For your blog, you need to buy hosting. Get to know more about how to buy hosting step-step tutorials here at Blog Tutorial WordPress (sonalichoudhury.com)

Topics Discussed

• Choosing the Web Hosting
• Finding a perfect theme for your blog
• Checking the performance for your Blog Theme
• Choosing the recipe Plugin that’s an SEO friendly
• Installing and activating WordPress Plugins
• Creating a Recipe with the activated plugin.
• Ways you can earn money from your food blog

1. Choosing the Web Hosting and Installing WordPress.

To start the blog you need to choose the Plan? Open the Bluehost website in a new window and follow along. Then register the domain name and filter the form. Learn which Webhosting to choose. Follow the step-by-step tutorial.

After following this guide, you will learn the basic steps of Buying, Hosting, and Creating a brand new blog which you can then share with the world.

2. How to find a perfect theme for your Blog

Choosing a theme could be a little confusing in the beginning but as you start creating your content and have completed the basic framework of your blog you will eventually understand what theme suits best your bog. But initially, just in the beginning level, you may simply choose the theme that has the best reviews regarding speed and is easy to understand, and it’s completely okay if it looks simple. It is not at all related to the ranking of your blog. But yes the speed should matter. So the basic idea is to choose a theme that is simple and has good reviews on speed whether it is free or paid. It’s up to you.

There are a lot of free WordPress themes you will see that come up with the installation of WordPress itself. So make sure to choose one from these because those are great as well.

However, if you are specifically choosing to create a food/recipes blog then you’ll need a theme that looks and feels like a food blog specific rather than a personal blog creating content on different topics.
For example, I would like to show you step-by-step installation instructions in my article in the given link and the article below on how to install a WordPress theme here at WordPress Setup (sonalichoudhury.com) or continue to read more in the sections below.

WordPress theme Setup. How to add Themes to WordPress website ?

For Website Setup, you need a few things to know before you start as a beginner. When you buy and install WordPress the very next step is to set up and install a theme for your site which gives uniqueness and a design to your website. Once you configured your WordPress, simply go to the dashboard of your WordPress and then the appearance and then themes on the left-hand side.

Then click on the “Add a new” theme and you will see the inside of WordPress. You will see there are a lot of themes that you can choose from. As you can see in the screenshot below the themes are available right now. You may activate any of the themes based on your interest and requirement and activate that particular theme. Read more here.

3. How to check the performance/speed of WordPress theme ?

Go to the google speed page insights to check the performance of the theme that you are going to install. Or simply type any page link/URL from your website to check the speed of your page. before you start creating content. Below is the screenshot available on the live page speed detector.

Steps you need to follow to check the page speed or the WordPress setup theme speed before you finalize.

Enter the URL of the Blog or any blog post and hit the Analyze button to check the speed and performance of your page and the theme that is installed. Always make sure to check the details on the given theme, and the speed/ performance of it, before you start with your blog and create content because this will help load your page super faster when ranked on google. Screenshots are attached in the post here at WordPress Setup (sonalichoudhury.com). Go through the given link to understand the steps clearly on how to set up a WordPress Theme for your Website/Blog.

Next for an example, I would like to share how to choose a Food and recipe Specific plugin below that you can use.

4. Choosing a Recipe Plugin that’s SEO Friendly

WP RECIPE MAKER This is a WP recipe Plugin that is SEO friendly. It has version 8.1.1 and has already made active installations of more than 50,000+

It has a Version: 8.1.1

Active installations:50,000+

WordPress Version:4.4 or higher tested up to:5.9.1

PHP Version:5.4 or high

Installing a WordPress Plugin — A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners

I know how it feels when someone is new to these installations and rolls their eyeballs to find something that is easy and clearly explained to them. Well, don’t worry I will show you how easy to install these Plugins within a few minutes in the given section below.

Before you install and activate the WP Plugin I would also l; like to mention that you can also upgrade to the premium version of the WP Recipe Maker plugin to get all of its extra features, which includes improved SEO, ingredient linking, user ratings, taxonomies, and more.

For WordPress, there are thousands of free and paid plugins as I mentioned above already, and would like to repeat that free Plugins are just perfect, to begin with, your blog and start creating content. Later on, once you have created a fair amount of posts and you think you are good to continue with the blog you may upgrade your plugin to the premium ones anytime.

Step By Step guide along with the Images shown below to help install the plugins

Let me show you the basic step to search the plugin inside of the WordPress blog. Simply go to the dashboard of your blog as shown in the images below

Then go to the Plugins » Add New page inside your WordPress admin area. Find out the full step by step guide on how to install WordPress Plugins here at WordPress plugin – Blog Central (sonalichoudhury.com)

5. Creating a recipe using an activated plugin

Once you have activated the plugin, you need to create a blog post or edit an existing one. On the post edit screen, click on the WP Recipe Maker button. Then create a new recipe or edit any previous recipe that you have created already.

This will bring up a popup where you can enter your recipe details. You will start by adding an image for the recipe, recipe name, description, Recipe type, serving, cook time duration, attach a video for the recipe, and other information.

Also, you can choose to add the ingredient lists and the type of dish you have prepared.
After that, go to the Nutrition Facts tab and select the Calculate Nutrition Facts button.

The plugin will calculate the Nutrition Facts for ingredients that match. Once you’re pleased, click the calculate nutrition information button again, and nutrition will be calculated. Once you are satisfied with the recipe click on to the button and close the tab. Also, you will receive a shortcode that will be added to the post editor by the plugin. Next, you need to save and publish your post.

The plugin has a lot of options, including several layouts and themes for displaying your recipes. To change the appearance of your recipes and other settings, go to WP Recipe Maker » Settings.

Don’t miss out to explore the settings that these plugins offer. You can simply make unique and attractive the ways you like.

6. Ways you can earn money from your Food Blog

Google Ad Sense ~

Adding Google AdSense to your website is simple and does not require any coding knowledge. Using Google AdSense is the simplest and easiest way you can start generating money from your website right away. Once approved Google Adsense displays ads on your website automatically in its unique way. You don’t have to put any extra effort to do that. Well, it starts generating money as soon as someone clicks on those ads through your content page. It is as simple as that.

Once you are all set with your blog starting up from buying, hosting, and installing plugins. Also, added up legal pages, and created an overall framework of your blog. and it is ready to rock the world. You can apply for AdSense.

You can start earning a few bugs from your blog constantly even if you don’t write content every single day. Slowly create contents where people would love to stop by and get help by approaching your work. It doesn’t matter if it is related to technical, education, arts, or science-related blog. What matters is the value of your content that provides some sort of information that people are searching for on Google every single minute. They will be bound to come back and check into your blog if it provides value.

Affiliate Marketing ~

Another good approach to earn money is by affiliate marketing through your blog. Start looking at food-related affiliate products. These Affiliate programs are available on many companies related to food, grocery, kitchen accessories, appliances, etc. For example Amazon or Homedepot.

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Once you join these affiliate companies you may make money online the easier way. Whenever someone signs up entering his/her email through the link that you share, you earn something through it as an affiliate. But you need to sign up for the companies that you wanted to work with as an affiliate and to promote their services. It’s that simple but you need to understand what are the legitimate companies that you are promoting which can help others in some ways.

If you are unaware of the affiliate marketing platforms and don’t know how to start, then do check it out here to know more about it at Affiliate Marketing websites (sonalichoudhury.com)